Posted on 02/04/2016 11:54:28 AM PST by Citizen Zed
A United Nations panel has ruled that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is being "unlawfully detained," BBC News reported Thursday. Assange has been holed up in London's Ecuadorian embassy since 2012, when he sought asylum there to avoid extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations, which he denies. Assange asked the U.N.'s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, based in Geneva, to look into his case. He tweeted late Wednesday that he would accept arrest if the U.N. ruled against him.
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Better than being fund qithva bullet to the head.
The old, pervert Cold War dinosaur is at it again. It’s time. The UN has got to go. It’s too anti-American and we have to subsidize that sewer.
I’ll bet Julian has an Industrial Strength case of Cabin Fever. Can you imagine, a former mover and shaker megalomaniac being holed up in some boring little Embassy of a country no one ever thinks about?
“HELP!! I am volunteering to do time in any prison, anywhere, so long as I can see different people vis a vi, every so often.
Barbra Streisand was right “People who need people....”
Should have fled to Russia like Snowden. At least then he’d have a whole country to putz around in.
I doubt that Snowden can putz around in very much of Russia.
let SAS pop the blighter and have done with it
He’s got to have a longer leash than a guy stuck in an embassy.
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